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Surgent's The Accountant as the Expert Witness

Wednesday, Dec. 10
 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Online

2.00 Credits

Member Price: $99

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As litigation becomes more complex, attorneys are relying more on accountants to serve as consulting experts or expert witnesses at trial. Serving as an expert witness is not as difficult as you might expect. Accounting experts educate lawyers and jurors on issues such as valuation, tax liability, and forensics. Learn how accountants become expert witnesses, the role they play during pre-litigation through to trial, and the techniques experts employ to avoid challenges from opposing counsel.

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All About Fraud - Examples, Prevention and Auditing

Wednesday, Dec. 10
 1:00pm - 4:39pm

Online

4.00 Credits

Member Price: $129

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Fraud is constantly in the news. Whether it's employee retention credit mills, FTX, or the City of Dixon, it appears that fraud is everywhere. We'll start this session with a review of the common fraud schemes as identified in the 2024 Report to the Nations. We'll also review the commonalities of fraudsters. We'll then look at methods of prevention. We'll close with a look at the auditor's responsibility for the consideration of fraud in AU-C 240.

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Generative AI Strategy for Accountants

Wednesday, Dec. 10
 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Online

2.00 Credits

Member Price: $89

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This course empowers accountants with the knowledge and skills needed to strategically implement generative AI within their firms, positioning them at the forefront of innovation and operational efficiency. As generative AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini transform business practices, accountants will learn to harness these tools to drive value, streamline processes, and enhance decision-making. Through examination of the current AI landscape, practical frameworks, and real-world applications, participants will learn how to leverage AI technologies to enhance accounting operations while maintaining professional standards and ethical considerations. The course emphasizes a balanced approach to AI adoption that focuses on augmenting human capabilities rather than replacement. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

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Surgent's Government and Nonprofit Frauds and Controls to Stop Them

Wednesday, Dec. 10
 1:30pm - 5:00pm

Online

4.00 Credits

Member Price: $159

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George Washington once wrote, "We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience." The cost of fraud, dearly paid by governments and nonprofits, is too severe not to learn and profit from. In this course, we will look back at real-world government and nonprofit frauds and derive useful controls to stop them. The course materials utilize a highly illustrative and innovative format. Over 15 focused exercises are included to provide an enhanced working knowledge of fraud and anti-fraud controls to both auditors and industry professionals.

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Navigating Leaves of Absence

Wednesday, Dec. 10
 2:00pm - 3:07pm

Online

1.00 Credits

Member Price: $39

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Thinking Like an Auditor When Preparing Your Financial Statements

Wednesday, Dec. 10
 2:00pm - 3:47pm

Online

2.00 Credits

Member Price: $79

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Interview Techniques & Detecting Deception

Wednesday, Dec. 10
 2:00pm - 3:51pm

Online

2.00 Credits

Member Price: $79

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The ability to create and ask good questions as well as the ability to know when someone is being deceptive are important skills for managers, auditors, and investigators. This session will improve your interview techniques and your lie detection abilities. Multiple videos from various movies, TV shows, and public figures showcasing the behaviors of liars are included.

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Selected Ethics Topics - 2024 - 2025

Wednesday, Dec. 10
 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Online

2.00 Credits

Member Price: $89

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This course will help you to stay current on recent changes to the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct, as well as keep you abreast of emerging trends in ethics standards and regulatory initiatives and their potential impact on your practice. We will also explore frequent practitioner ethics compliance challenges, including competence, due professional care, audit quality, and independence. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

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Surgent's Top 20 Effective Strategies for Avoiding RMD Mistakes and Penalties

Wednesday, Dec. 10
 2:00pm - 4:00pm

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2.00 Credits

Member Price: $99

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Required minimum distributions (RMDs) must begin for the year in which the account owner reaches age 72 (older if they were born after 1950). RMDs must also be taken from inherited accounts, and the process for determining RMDs for these accounts is more complex than those that apply to RMDs for non-inherited accounts. Failure to comply with the RMD rules will result in the account owner owing the IRS an excess accumulation penalty on any RMD shortfall. Interested parties must understand the compliance requirements that apply to RMDs to be able to assist in ensuring that penalties are avoided. Additionally, the recent changes that affect RMDs must be considered when advising clients about their RMD obligations.

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Surgent's Unique Tax Attributes of Different Entity Types

Wednesday, Dec. 10
 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Online

2.00 Credits

Member Price: $99

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When putting together a financial plan, it is important to remember that the tax situation of the business and the individual are often intertwined. Therefore, decisions about entity type are vitally important. Practitioners need to understand not only how different entities are taxed, but also which taxes will have the greatest impact on the individual owner. In this course, we will explore when self-employment taxes apply to business income, as well as some of the lesser-known taxes that apply to flow-through entities. We will even explore when a PTE election could be helpful to a small business owner.

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Ask Me No Questions and I Will Tell You No Lies - The Art of Interviewing & Interrogation

Wednesday, Dec. 10
 2:00pm - 4:51pm

Online

3.00 Credits

Member Price: $99

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When we verbally communicate with an individual, we must make a conscious decision as to whether we believe what we have heard.  Little do we realize that we are not making a decision based on what we have heard; rather we make a subconscious decision based primarily on what we have seen, or how the body was behaving when the subject was speaking.  We often walk away from a conversation with a gut feeling that the person was not telling the truth.  That gut feeling is your subconscious.  Yet we often have no idea as to why we have that feeling. This presentation is designed to provide the participant with the tools to identify those both verbal and nonverbal indicators that we all give off when we are under stress.  Normally, telling the truth does not create stress.  When we lie, we know that we are not supposed to and that creates stress, and it will manifest itself in some manner, and that is what a trained interviewer is looking to observe. When we observe indicators of deception, how do we deal with it?  How do we get the subject to admit to a wrong-doing when it is not in their best interest to do so?  That is one of the many things that will be addressed in this presentation.  Whether you are a parent dealing with you kids; an employer dealing with employees or and investigation interviewing a suspect, this presentation will provide you with the tools to assist you in finding the truth.

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Building a Better Budget in a Time of Uncertainty

Wednesday, Dec. 10
 2:00pm - 6:00pm

Online

4.00 Credits

Member Price: $149

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Most financial leaders would agree that budgeting is easy when business and the economy are stable. When revenues and expenses are expected to remain the same, the process becomes merely an exercise in carrying over what was done before to the current year. However, what happens when we are not sure about how the market will react to our product? What happens when the competitive landscape changes? In this course, we will discuss budgeting techniques and considerations when business lacks stability. Through a combination of theory and real-world examples, we will explore how to build flexibility into our budget - so that it can inform and drive decision-making when we don't quite know what is ahead. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

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Mastering Partnership Basis: Inside and Outside Basis

Wednesday, Dec. 10
 2:30pm - 4:30pm

Online

2.00 Credits

Member Price: $89

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Global Internal Audit Standards (GIAS) Domain II - Part 2

Wednesday, Dec. 10
 3:00pm - 4:48pm

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2.00 Credits

Member Price: $79

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The new Global Internal Audit Standards were released on January 9, 2024, and will become effective January 9, 2025. The previous version, the International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing, released in 2017, remains approved for use during a one-year transition period. The Global Internal Audit Standards guide the worldwide professional practice of internal audit. They serve as a basis for evaluating and elevating the quality of the internal audit function. The Standards use 15 guiding principles with five separate domains that enable effective internal audit implementation and examples of evidence of conformance. The Global Standards are organized into five domains. Domain I: Purpose of Internal Auditing Domain II: Ethics and Professionalism Domain III: Governing the Internal Audit Function Domain IV: Managing the Internal Audit Function Domain V: Performing Internal Audit Service

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Navigating IRS Authorizations: Form 2848 and Form 8821

Wednesday, Dec. 10
 3:00pm - 5:00pm

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2.00 Credits

Member Price: $89

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Providing a practical overview of the IRS Power of Attorney, Form 2848, and IRS Tax Information Authorization, Form 8821. Participants will explore the differences between these forms, understand when each is required, and how to comply with IRS requirements for representing clients and accessing their tax information. The course will cover practical issues, ethical considerations, and best practices for managing client authorizations through the IRS Centralized Authorization File (CAF) system. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

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Surgent's Getting Ready for Busy Season: Review Individual Tax Form Changes

Wednesday, Dec. 10
 3:00pm - 5:00pm

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2.00 Credits

Member Price: $99

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Getting ready for busy season involves not only knowing the tax rules for 2025, but also knowing how those rules are incorporated into the IRS tax forms practitioners will be using to prepare 2025 tax returns. This course provides tax return preparer attendees with an up-to-date review of important new tax forms, key tax developments, and tax law changes as they are reflected in IRS forms for 2025 and IRS filing issues and deadlines as they relate to 2025.

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Building Personal Leadership Skills

Wednesday, Dec. 10
 3:00pm - 7:00pm

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4.00 Credits

Member Price: $129

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People skills are the most significant skills that professionals need to develop and yet are often the last skills perfected. This course will help participants understand personality types and the successful interactions with clients, peers and family. In addition, participants will learn Neuro-linguistic programming and develop the ability to better understand nonverbal language, which is key to communication. Participants will also learn techniques to enhance memory and to improve the ability to recall key facts.

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Microsoft Outlook "Must Know" Email Tips

Wednesday, Dec. 10
 3:30pm - 5:30pm

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2.00 Credits

Member Price: $89

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If you use Outlook on a daily basis to process your email, chances are pretty good that you are missing out on a lot of opportunities to improve your efficiency in composing, processing and organizing your messages. There are many different features in Outlook that often get overlooked, even though we are working in the app all day, every day. John Higgins, a strategic advisor to the profession on Microsoft 365 deployment, will review numerous tips and features to improve your productivity in Outlook. You will learn many time-saving, practical ways to improve the quality of your email message. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

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Promoting Mental Health in the Workplace to Prevent Violence

Wednesday, Dec. 10
 4:00pm - 4:57pm

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1.00 Credits

Member Price: $39

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Employees, now more than ever, are experiencing stress, anxiety and other mental health challenges and all of those come with them each day to the workplace. In order to ensure the safety and security of their workplace, employers need to address these issues and support their employees. Join us to discuss the challenges to providing mental health support to employees, the potential risks of deprioritizing mental health, and tangible actions employers can take to support the mental health of their work group. The cost of providing mental health resources and support pales in comparison to the cost of NOT providing it. Make a plan. Be ProActive.

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Accounting for and Auditing Cryptocurrency and Digital Assets

Wednesday, Dec. 10
 4:00pm - 6:00pm

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2.00 Credits

Member Price: $89

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